The robot can review conditions over about 80 miles of transmission line several times annually.
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American Electric Power (AEP) built a transmission line from West Virginia to Virginia in two years.
Because of NIMBY opinions, energy projects and transmission line takes a great amount of time to come online.
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The underwater trunk transmission line carrying the power from the wind farms to shore has to be built.
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Straddling a shield wire, Ti crawls along a transmission line looking for everything from high grass to low trees.
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American Electric Power plans to deploy Ti for the first time on a 765 kV transmission line in 2014.
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"We didn't have a failure in the generation of energy, we had a problem in the transmission line, " Mr Lula said.
Now, citing delays in transmission line construction, Pickens has changed the plan.
For example, an 85-mile Green Path North Transmission Line planned to carry green power to Los Angeles was cancelled in 2010 due to environmental opposition.
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It fell onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line.
In May, an India-made power transmission line to Kabul and a sub-station were opened, bringing 24-hour electricity to the capital for the first time in 17 years.
Equipped with high-definition infrared cameras and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, Ti feeds information to the utility about specific conditions of specific assets at specific places on a transmission line.
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It is also now building out a transmission line.
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Meralco says it is not interested in the NPC's 230-kilovolt main transmission line, but just in the 115-kv subsidiary link to the southern Luzon provinces of Cavite and Laguna, where the country's major industries - Meralco's customers - are situated.
He refuses to divulge what a potential deduction would be on Trinchera, which already has tax credits for its agricultural operation, but says it will be somewhere in the neighborhood of what he spent to save it from the transmission line.
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The system's reliability is improved due to the return of a nuclear generating unit in New Brunswick that had been offline for several years, the planned addition of a 660-megawatt transmission line between Manhattan and New Jersey, and added transmission lines in New England.
At the end, geothermal energy companies want California regulators to assign higher values to the steady supply of power they could generate, speed up the permitting process, and promote more transmission line construction to transport geothermal energy from more remote corners of the state to towns and cities.
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TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
The line is owned by NiSource Gas Transmission and is operated by its subsidiary Columbia Gas Transmission.
The vehicle has a single-speed transmission that makes it feel sprightly off the line, producing acceptable acceleration (reported at 9.5 seconds from zero to 60), good for around town, and a top speed limited to 85 miles per hour.
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Big players like NextEra have the ability and knowhow to build transmission and interconnections needed to get the power on line.
Outside of oil and gas, Hunt owns stakes in power plants in the Northeast, transmission lines in Texas, including a 150 megawatt cross-border line with Mexico built in 2007.
It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.
He told Forbes.com that social networking could bridge the gap between fixed-line and mobile networks, from broadband at home to mobile data transmission.
Even with the Energy Department's designated transmission zones, the idea is that utility companies will first seek approval from state authorities to site a power line.
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